Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Photo of Steven MatthewsSteven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I accept these are all important questions. Could I bring Dr. Greene in on that point? Having visited Waterford and Kilkenny, those two cities, to my eye, have preserved well many of their archeological and heritage aspects. I know very little about this. I have no expertise in this area. To my uninformed eye, this looks good. How does the preservation of a site or artefact and constructing around it, in a sympathetic manner, fit in with the Valletta principles in terms of preserving the landscape around it? How do we get to a position where we get that balance right?

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